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Our youth and manhood are due to our country, but our declining years are due to ourselves.
Pliny the Elder
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Pliny the Elder
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Gaius Plinius Secundus
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Gaius P. Secundus
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No man's abilities are so remarkably shining as not to stand in need of a proper opportunity.
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We listen with deep interest to what we hear, for to man novelty is ever charming.
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